Preservation of system state considered harmful

Erik Steffl steffl@bigfoot.com
Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:03:30 -0800


Sean Perry wrote:
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> curious. "I was preserving machine state during upgrades"? Does this 
> mean that you had dpkg set to not ask "You have modified this config 
> file, should I overwrite it?"?

   I only have one machine so I set it so that I am asked all questions 
and always do diff when it asks... this probably wouldn't scale much...

	erik